{"id":4568,"date":"2010-08-29T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2010-08-29T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:44:45","slug":"a-face-in-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/29\/a-face-in-the-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"A Face In The Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just caught the 1957 movie <a title=\"TCM page on A Face In The Crowd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title.jsp?stid=74421\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Face In The Crowd<\/strong><\/a> on Turner Classic Movies the other day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing  drifter into a powerful media star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Was it amazing foresight that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/participant\/participant.jsp?spid=172322&amp;apid=24821\" target=\"_top\">Budd Schulberg<\/a><\/strong> used to write this story that could be about Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or others of their ilk?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps extrapolating from <a title=\"Wikipedia on Father Charles Coughlin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Coughlin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Father Charles Edward Coughlin<\/strong><\/a> or <a title=\"Wikipedia on Arthur Godfrey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Godfrey\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Arthur Godfrey<\/strong><\/a> was enough to get this close to the modern day demagogues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just caught the 1957 movie A Face In The Crowd on Turner Classic Movies the other day. A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star. Was it amazing foresight that Budd Schulberg used to write this story that could be about Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or others of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}